Tag attachment



Sept. 16, 1930.

M. R. KoNDoLF TAG ATTAGHMENT Filed Aug. 3. 1927 Patented Sept. 16, 1930 men stf-'ie MATHIAS R. KONDOLF, OF LOW'EE MER-IGN TWNSHIP, MONTGOMERY COU'NTY, PENN- SYLVANIA TAG ATTAGHMENT Application filedAugust 3, 1927. Seria1-No. 210,249.

My invention is designed to afford improved means for non-detachably securing a tag or seal to an article by providing the flexible cord used as a connector with one or more end tips or needles having their cord-engaging shanks provided with barbs bent therefrom so that the free ends of the barbs diverge from the cord when the latter is pulled in the direction of its aXis. The shank of the tip is w preferably rolled or crimped axially around the end of the cord and the free end of the tip, comprising the barb, extends away from the end of the cord as well as loutwL-'irdly from the axis thereof. The provision of such bent barb on a tip prevents manipulation thereof within the tagI pocket by Which the tip might be brought into alignment with the tag aperture and Withdrawn from the tag pocket by a pull on the cord. The barb also prevents inadvertent Withdrawal of the tip from the tag pocket, which sometimes occurs when the tip is inserted in the tag pocket without bending the cord and lies in alignment with the axis of the cord, particularly when the latter is not sufiiciently limp to cause the tip to fall to the desired transverse position and act as a cross bar in the tag pocket. The bent barb cross-bar position in the pocket when the cord is pulled. The barb may diverge from the axis of the cord or shank at any desired angle or curvature and to any desired distance so long as the distance between the free end of the barb and the taut cord is greater than the diameter or length of the tag aperture through which the cord passes into the tag pocket.

The characteristic features and advantages of my improvements will more fully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings in illustration thereof.

In the drawings, Fig. l shows broken sections of cord having metal blanks rolled thereon at spaced distances, the blanks being adapted to be cut transversely to form tips on opposite ends of cord sections; Fig. 2 is a cord section with tips on the ends thereof provided with diverging barbs; Fig. 3 is an elevation of a tag with a cord tip partly inserted. therein; Fig. lt is an elevation of a,v tag, with part broken away to show the pocket and with a cord and tip inserted therein with the end of the barb engaging the edge of the pocket; and Fig. 5 is an elevation of a tag having the 'cord tip lying crosswise therein.

The cords employed for the attachment of nondetachable tags, and which may be made of yarn or flexible wire, preferably have tips or needles applied thereto by rolling on an., unout cord l suitably spaced blanks consisting of interinediate sections 2 which encircle and grip the cord, and pointed ends-3 lying parallel to but free from the cord. The individual cord sections are formed by cutting transversely through the sections 2 -to produce a cord of suitable length witha tip on each end with the points extending toward each other and lying parallel with the aXis of the cord. The pointed end of the tip facilitates 'penetration of the fabric to which a tag is to be affixed and may be used to penetrate the tag material if an imperforate tag is used. VVhere, however, thev'edge of the tag pocket is perforated, the operatives not infrequently insert the tips into the tag pockets blunt end first, and the tags sometimes drop off before 1 the tips assume a transverse or cross bar posialso tends to turn the tip into the desired tion. Moreover, it is possible, with a little practice, to realign the free end of a tip with the tag apertureby pressing with the fingers against the pocket walls to hold the outer extremity of the tip and pulling on the cord, and when the free end of the tip is aligned with the aperture the tip and cord may be readily withdrawn from the pocket and the tag detaohed from the article.

In accordancewith my present invention, the free end of each tip is bent outwardly from the. shank 4: formed from one-half a section 2 and forms a barb or prongdiverging from the axis of the shank and tant cord, so that when the tip is inserted through the aperture 6 into the closed pocket 7 of a tag 8 it cannot ybe withdrawn either accidentally or purposely and the point of the barb cannot be alignedwith the aperture 6 by manipulation of the tip or pulling on the cord. Pulling on the cord causes they barb point to engage the edge of the pocket as indicated in Fig. 4 since the distance between the cord and barb point is greater than the diameter of the aperture. If the pull 'on the cord be increased, the barb will either perforate the wall of the tag and indicate that it has been tampered with or deflect the tip crosswise as indicated in Fig. 5. 1vVhere the tag contains no preformed aperture 6, the point of the barb 5 may be used to perforate the tag material and the shank of the tip and the cord pushed in after the barb.

l/Vhile the cords are preferably provided with a tip at each end thereof, it is obvious that one end of the cord may be tipless and permanently attached to the tag. nstead of the tag in itself forming the price ticket as illustrated, it may consist of what is coinmonly designated a seal uniting the ends of a. cord threaded through an article and a ticket or the like having no pocket therein.

The barbs 5 are preferably bent outward from the intermedate sections 2 before they are severed to form shanks 4; They may be severed by an angular cut to provide pointed ends instead of, or in addition to, pointing ett) .- the barb ends.

suficiently limp to permit the ready bending thereof relatively' to the tips-at the points 9 intermediate the tip ends and the shank and barb are preferably of such relative weights as to turn readily to the cross-bar position shown in Fig. 5. I 1

Having described my invention, claimi l. An attachment for a tag or the like coinprising a flexible cord having fixedly secured thereon a tip comprising a shank sleeved on the cord coaxially therewith and a barb bent therefrom so as to diverge from the cord when the latter is pulled in the direction of its aXis.

2. An attachment for a tag or the like com- Leve-me 5. The combination With an apertured tag, of a cord passing through the aperture of such tag and connected with a needle intermediate the ends of said needle, saidl needle having a body concentric with the axis of the cord and being adapted to form a cross pin preventing disengagement of said cord and tag and having a barb diverging from said cord When the body of the needle is disposed axially of said cord.

6. The combination with an apertured tag containing a closed pocket, of a cord passing through an aperture of said tag into said pocket and having a needle rolled thereon concentrically with the aXis of the cord and with a free part diverging from the axis of said cord and adapted to engage a' wall of said tag when the cord is pulled.

In witness whereof, I'have hereunto set my name this th day of July, 1927.

MATHIAS R. KONDOLF.

The cords are preferably" prising a fiexible cord provided with' an end tip fixedly connected thereto and having a body coaxial with the cord and a barb diverging from the body thereof and pointing away from the end of said cord, said cord being adapted to bend freely relatively to said tip at a point between the outer end of said tip and the end of said barb to form a cross piece preventing Withdrawal of said cord from an apertured tag or the like.

3. An attachment for a tag or the like comprising a flexible cord having atip rolled around its axis at an end thercof, said tip having a free portion removed from the end of the cord and diverging from the axis about which said tip is rolled so that when the cord is pulled in the direction of such axis said free portion projects outwardly therefrom.

An attachment for a tag or the like comprlsing a cord having on each end thereof a needle having a shank concentric with the axis of the core, each needle having a point projecting away from the end of the cord to which the needle is fixed and each point diverging from the cord when the latter is in ahgnment with the shank of the needle. 

